RE: Global Warming
August 20, 2009 at 7:32 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2009 at 7:35 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(August 17, 2009 at 12:22 pm)Retorth Wrote: The earth has been around for billions of years...industrialisation has been around 1 to 200 years approximately...and we seem so sure that aluminium cans and plastic bags are gonna destroy the earth
I don't remember ANYONE ever making that claim.Those things (especially plastics) are a hazard to the environment,especially at sea,but hardly life threatening to humans.
George Carlin put it this way "The earth isn't going anywhere.WE ARE"
We aren't harming the planet,but we do seem to be making it uninhabitable for ourselves. After humans fade in to a thoroughly deserved extinction,the earth will recover withing an ego shatteringly short time. LIFE will survive,in some form. Within a few thousand years,it will be as if we never existed.
I accept that it's likely that humans are at least partly to blame for global warming. Of course it's all academic to me.On an emotional level, I honestly don't give a shit. With any luck I'll be dead before any of it becomes more than a petty inconvenience.
My own position is to lump Holocaust deniers,9/11 Truthers,Moon landing deniers, and global warming deniers of different hues all into the same bag of mixed nuts. Mostly they seem to be made up of paranoid and/or ignorant people who are unable to distinguish between being a sceptic and a contrarian.
